Elvira - Mistress of the Dark
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Elvira: Mistress of the Dark is an adventure game. The game uses a first-person perspective in which the hero wanders around solving puzzles, and combating with undead creatures that have overrun Elvira’s Castle.

This game features dozens of different death sequences. If the cook in the kitchen kills you, for example, you can see your head floating in her cauldron. The game also has a real-time combat system. You have to time your attacks and blocks in order to defeat the enemy.

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Trivia:

Engine

The game uses a modified version of AberMUD with added graphical extensions called the AGOS Engine. AberMUD was originally written by Alan Cox who is now a well-known Linux developer at Red Hat.
Awards

Computer Gaming World
November 1991 (Issue #88) – Role-Playing Game of the Year

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Description from the packaging:

The fantasy adventure.

The look and feel of a Graphic Adventure with the depth of an FRP.

Over 100 hours of frighteningly realistic gameplay.

An enormous 800-room castle to search and explore.

Stunning graphics, digitized voices and a haunting soundtrack.

Over 300 ominous objects at your disposal.

Real-time, hand-to-hand combat with more than 100 sinister characters.

Comes with a spellbook to mix potions and ward off evil spirits.

Totally icon driven. So easy to play it's scary.

Can somebody find my chest?

"No really, I'm serious! See, I've been remodeling this cold and moldy castle, right? So how was I to know that I'd wake up Queen Emelda- especially since the old bat croaked hundreds of years ago!

Anyway, Queenie-baby wants to come back from the dead and rule the world- and the only way I can stop her and her monstrous minions is to find a secret scroll of spells, hidden in a big chest, somewhere in this huge, 800-room castle.

Won't you help your poor, innocent little Mistress?"

Yours cruelly-
Elvira
